We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WELLSThe path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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